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I assume it's electronic.

Hi all. Need some help from the brains trust. I need to come up with a cable shifter that mounts to the dash. Only slight hitch is I'm trying to figure out the shift pattern. It's from an E60 and looking at the shifter in pics online it goes PRND. But I can feel 6 clicks on the actual shifting mechanism on the side of the box. So does that mean 7 stations? So ignoring that dilemma, as soon as I can figure out how many clicks I need I want to be able to make a cool shifter on the dash that suits the chev. Here are some cool ones for inspiration.

My old standard 10 had a whine in the diff so I swapped it for a herald one and it was worse but better gearing. I'm convinced that with old triumphs if you don't hear some sort of whine you might as well keep driving to the audiologist as they have some bad news to hand signal to you.

Yep it would be an option and I'm building as per the plans to keep that idea open.

My Imp goes to LVV this month some time and the engineer mentioned he needed to look more into what the cert process is for half shafts. If you go down that path tag or PM me and I'll let you know what I needed. I just got the paperwork from the engineering shop just in case. I'm not sure if I'll need to get them crack tested or not.

For my VW to Hillman which were different diameters the engineer put them in some angle iron with one having a shim to raise it and with a groove added to each tip for weld to go in he butt welded them. They then got spun up on some fancy massive machine to balance them and get a report for LVV and job jobbed. Cost me maybe $300 all up. As for Triumph diffs, I recall putting a herald diff in my standard 10. Wish I never sold it. Was a great grocery getter.

Another option is a pop top although I feel that's for warmer climates where you'd want somewhere to chill out of the hot sun.

Just thinking out loud and would be really keen to get some feed back on a cabin and what looks in proportion. The whaler is an open boat and for those who camp on them, they generally use a tent. Owing to the mentally unstable NZ weather I'd prefer a cabin for which I can store my bedding and stuff so I don't have to have all the lockers full of shit. A slight safety factor is that if all the lockers are full of crap, they are no longer buoyancy tanks which would be needed in case of capsize or significant leak. Plus I don't want to be tripping over tents whilst swanning about in the cabin let alone pissfarting about with erecting a tent in a storm. Some pictures help with what I'm mulling over and be cool to get some feedback. The official FB page is pretty cool but owing to whalers being in the minority there isn't much discussion on them. This is what an as per the plan whaler looks like (professionally built clearly) with the open cockpit and from what it looks like just a day sailer. Here is a picture of a similar Welsford design with a tent. Here are a couple of low cabin roofing designs which would be pretty functional to sail with and look minimal and sporty, but inside would be crawl space only and only for storage or sleeping. Not really for sitting out poor weather with a book or cooking in. Here is a high cabin approach which would be ok to sit up in (it is flat bottomed so unable to stand up in) and cook in. Interestingly enough this cabin is on a whaler. You can see the coaming around the cockpit is higher than a normal whaler and rises to meet the cabin at the half way mark. This is the interior. The flooring seen here is in place and can be 100mm lower without the floorboards and sole supports if comfortable walking on the bottom panel. Below are a couple of examples of a sort of mid point between crawling around like a dickhead but not having my nose rub the cabin ceiling when I sleep. Note that the coaming/cabin sides are relatively low but the roof and hatch have a more distinct curve in them to get some height. If you scroll back up to the low designs you'll see the roofs are quite flat by comparison. One thing to note is unlike the whaler above, I'll be making my cabin smaller and just sleeping on an angle in a V berth. So the centreboard case will be half in and half out. Which means a door can only be put in on one side of the case. Unless there was a matching door on the other side which was only just containing a cupboard for the navigation equipment and a galley rather than an actual entry point/companionway. This is how the owner of a pathfinder got around the c/b case being in and out. With something like this which I think is pretty clever. I don't know the pathfinders well but assume the higher cockpit floor in front of the door is for where your feet go when sleeping. Open to any thoughts or ideas. Still not ruling out a tent. Just would prefer something more permanent. Especially as I'm only sailing by myself and possibly a dog.

Cheers mate and the others for the kind words. It's actually a nice relaxing break from fencing and rusty old car projects. I genuinely look forward to my weekends spent working on it.

Good stuff. Make sure you share the pics please! It should pretty quickly tell you if it's worth jumping on the end of a 6 foot cheater pipe hanging off the crank bolt or not.

Plans are for architects. This is the one I'm using.

What a project line up! I'm very jealous. I used to own a luxobarge early 80's caddy and spent far too much time trying to make what I had work when I should have just turfed it all for something simple. Do you own a borescope?

Have some big decisions to make with the cockpit layout and possible cabin.

Absolutely exhausted after pulling 15 hour days for three days but finally got it planked. Lots of stencils are now in the incinerator drum and ready to go to hell. To get the stringers right it took a lot of hand planing for the planks to sit as flush as possible. The pic below shows the shavings from just the top one alone. They had to be planed for both top and bottom. If doing again I'd make the stringers wider like on the pathfinder. Anyway she is done now. I really should have followed the plans and done the seat tops so as to be able to fillet them from the outside but it is what it is. Ill have to do it by feel through a small locker hatch now. Glad it is done. Finally looking like a boat. Next on the agenda is the outboard well redesign and the false stem on the bow to make it more vikingier. Below left to right is more modern, heavier, powerful, reliable.

Tit is indeed the 6HP26. It is the cable shift one so I can come up with a cool shifter. What does the gearbox controller do that your ecu doesnt already do? I haven't got that far but a manual control would be handy for towing so I dont slug it up in overdrive too much.